Horrible Science: Ugly Bugs

Ugly Bugs. You don’t have to go very far to find them. Pick up any stone, look into any corner, and a hideous creepy-crawly thing is bound to squirm out! Huge hairy spiders! Wriggly centipedes! Slimy slugs and snails! Most frail folk will scream and run away. But if you’re brave and intrepid enough to look closer, then it’s time to discover:

what slugs do with their slime
why flies throw up on your tea
how insects drink your blood
how a preying mantis bites its victim’s head off
which sickening centipede can kill you
which people eat fried woodlice as a tasty snack. Yum!
which prowling parasites live off YOU!!

So lift up the stone on the creepy-crawly world of insects, and get ready to say ‘ulp’ at all the nasty bits. It’s ugly bugs vs. horrible humans – but who wins?

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Fun Stuff

Activities

Horrible Science Colouring Activity

Colour in this great picture of a hippo with enormous teeth!
Horrible Science Dot to Dot

What do caterpillars turn into? Join up the dots to find out, then colour it in.
Horrible Science Wallpaper

Slimy Horrible Science wallpaper for you to download!
Horrible Science Wallpaper

Download this cool Horrible Science wallpaper for your PC.
Horrible Science Wordsearch

Can you find all the words in this African puzzle?

Recent reviews

alibaba4

Educational but funny too

8 March 2014
Spidergirl

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This book is good if you want to know about every living little creatures around you Very interesting and informative book

5 March 2014

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Authors

Nick Arnold

Nick Arnold has been writing for Scholastic for ten years, clocking up over 20 titles in the HORRIBLE SCIENCE series. Nick lives in Devon.

Awards

Nick Arnold has won three Aventis Science Prizes for the Horrible Science series, for Blood, Bones and Body Bits, Ugly Bugs and Really Rotten Experiments, and won the 2013 Best Book with Facts at the Blue Peter Book Awards.
Tony De Saulles

Tony De Saulles trained in graphic design, but since illustrating the Horrible Science series, has been concentrating on his illustrative style. Tony lives in Cheltenham.